As WW1 medical inspections showed, being of fighting age didn't mean you were fit for fighting. I look at WW1 records of my rellies and they have chest measurements my size and smaller! One of them had a leg affected by polio, they weren't exactly muscle-bound.
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Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall
Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey
Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk
Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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